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Sounds like they need to schedule people for more hours down at the Office of Labor Standards. Only 2 weeks out though.
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Yeah, those were pretty much the same predictions people made a couple of years ago when the Minimum Wage laws started taking effect. And while there has been some increase in menu prices, it's been more-or-less offset by reductions in tipping, so basically a wash. As for the others, not so much.
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@2 San Francisco has had these worker rights on the books for well over a year now. Nothing changed. Businesses are still open and actually *struggling* to hire enough people, new businesses are always popping up, and prices go up in concert with lease changes - in other words, it's the landlords who are hurting business the most, not laws that just treat employees with some level of respect so they can properly manage their lives around work. This is common sense legislation.
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@6:

Perhaps you're looking at old data, or perhaps you've just bought into the Conservative assertion, which isn't supported by any factual evidence.

In any case, unemployment in the Leisure & Hospitality Sector was about 4.2% as of June, not a significant difference, particularly when seasonally-adjusted.

As for price increases, that was expected, as employers adjusted for reduced tip income. It should also be noted that restaurant prices have increased outside of Seattle as well, according to a recent study on impacts of the $15 Inc…, indicating other factors besides the wage bump are in-play.

And while there is some evidence of cutback in average hours, again, it's not huge - about one hour per week per worker, and employers have been adding jobs at about the same rate as those outside of Seattle.

So basically, things aren't as bad as critics insisted it would be, nor as good as proponents hoped; pretty much what one would expect this early on.
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One sided view. There are a large amount of Full Service industry worker that oppose this legislation and want to be written out. Please make sure, if you speak for workers, you include ALL workers. Full Service demands to be written completely out of this one size fits all blanket legislation that will be a disaster for our culture and work life. https://www.change.org/p/seattle-city-co…

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